46th Cuba Film Festival Concludes with Screening of Award-Winning Works

Still from the film Un poeta, by Simón Mesa

The final weekend of the 46th International Festival of New Latin American Cinema began today with the screening of films winning Coral and collateral awards, in Havana.

Un poeta, the most awarded film of the Coral Prizes, will be shown this Saturday at 3:00 PM local time at the Charles Chaplin Cinema; at 5:30 PM it will be the turn of the Opera Prima Award winner, La misteriosa mirada del flamenco (Chile, France), and it will conclude at 8:00 PM with the Colombian-Honduran co-production Eva, winner of the Coral Prize for artistic contribution.

The jury awarded Un poeta, by Simón Mesa, the Coral Prize for Feature Fiction Film, Best Male Performance, the Don Quixote Prize from the International Federation of Film Societies, and the Signis Prize from the World Catholic Association for Communication.

The plot revolves around Óscar Restrepo's obsession with poetry, which has brought him no glory, and how bringing some light to his life by helping the young Yuraldy cultivate her talent in this literary genre.

Meanwhile, at the Yara Cinema, today's screenings included Raptus (Cuba), Safo (Brazil), and Corazón de las tinieblas (Brazil, France), winners of the Coral Prize for Animated Short or Medium-Length Film, the Special Jury Prize, and the Animated Feature Film Prize, respectively.

La Rampa will host the screening of El príncipe de Nanawa, a co-production of Argentina, Paraguay, Colombia, and Germany, winner of the Coral Prize for Documentary Feature, at 1:30 PM local time.

In turn, the Acapulco, Infanta, and Glauber Rocha Foundation theaters will screen the works Nora (Cuba), Case 137 (France), Los renacidos (Argentina, Chile, Spain), and Oca (Mexico, Argentina), at different times.

On Sunday, the 23 y 12 Cinema will screen Baracoa (Cuba, Italy), winner of the Súmate Prize and Mention from the Havana Agrarian University, at 3:00 PM local time, and Hijo de tigre y mula (Panama, Colombia), winner of the Special Coral Jury Prize for Documentary Feature, at 5:30 PM.

Likewise, the multi-award-winning films Belén (Argentina), Cuerpo Celeste (Chile, Italy), Tierra enferma (Brazil), El agente secreto (Brazil, France), and Neurótica Anónima (Cuba) will be shown interchangeably at the Charles Chaplin, Yara, and Acapulco cinemas, thus concluding this 46th Edition of the Havana Film Festival.